These are lyrics for Dear Mr. PRESIDENT, BY PINK. It struck a hard cord with me....maybe you too...who knows, be tolerant, we aren't all perfect, we hurt people, we break, we bleed, we make others bleed, at the end of the day we are all flesh and blood, and we all go home to lick our wounds, be careful with your stones, stones are solid, they bruise, they break, they tarnish the beautiful things we build. be careful...be careful...be careful...stones are solid and when they leave your hand they make a mark, we live with the stones we cast. I am daily gathering the stones I have cast in ignorance... I can't tell some people just how sorry I am...
"Dear Mr. President,
Come take a walk with me.
Let's pretend we're just two people and
You're not better than me.
I'd like to ask you some questions if we can speak honestly.
What do you feel when you see all the homeless on the street?
Who do you pray for at night before you go to sleep?
What do you feel when you look in the mirror?
Are you proud?
How do you sleep while the rest of us cry?
How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye?
How do you walk with your head held high?
Can you even look me in the eye
And tell me why?
Dear Mr. President,
Were you a lonely boy?
Are you a lonely boy?
Are you a lonely boy?
How can you say
No child is left behind?
We're not dumb and we're not blind.
They're all sitting in your cells
While you pave the road to hell.
What kind of father would take his own daughter's rights away?
And what kind of father might hate his own daughter if she were gay?
I can only imagine what the first lady has to say
You've come a long way from whiskey and cocaine.
How do you sleep while the rest of us cry?
How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye?
How do you walk with your head held high?
Can you even look me in the eye?
Let me tell you 'bout hard work
Minimum wage with a baby on the way
Let me tell you 'bout hard work
Rebuilding your house after the bombs took them away
Let me tell you 'bout hard work
Building a bed out of a cardboard box
Let me tell you 'bout hard work
Hard work
Hard work
You don't know nothing 'bout hard work
Hard work
Hard work
Oh
How do you sleep at night?
How do you walk with your head held high?
Dear Mr. President,
You'd never take a walk with me.
Would you?"
Monday, April 9
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God, but I miss you and love you! You can't imagine how true your words are to me tonight....please, don't take them down. Leave this post up and pretend we are talking in the dark....although, in retrospect, I don't think you and I talked "in" the dark so much as "to" the dark.
I've lit my light and you've lit yours...maybe with time, enough of us can light enough candles to do away with the darkness altogether.
More later toots....I'll email you soon with thoughts of grandeur. :)
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